Word: geniality
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After three days and three nights of see-saw competition between the previously unbeaten Harvard aquamen and their none-too-genial host, Princeton, the Eastern Seaboard Intercollegiate Championship hinged on one race, the concluding 400-yd. freestyle relay...
...drawing by Rembrandt to a Deruta pot or a Motherwell collage. There is practically no work of art immune to it, and its effects on the perception of art have been, in general, disastrous. The problem is not simply that art costs money; it always has. Peter Wilson, the genial and astute entrepreneur whose direction of the auction house of Sotheby's has done so much to create the modern investment fetishism, likes to point out that the prices paid in their day for the works of Victorian painters like Alma-Tadema (when multiplied by 30 to bring them...
...almost all of them were also aware that Kissinger, while uttering technical truths, knew there was much more to the story. It was a genial bit of public fakery but mutual nondeception...
...seems, are bedeviled by false images in Gotham. According to Father George Thompson, vocations director of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, many New Yorkers see their priests in the Father O'Malley image made popular by Bing Crosby in Going My Way three decades ago-a genial sort of fellow who solves parish problems so deftly that he has plenty of time to write and croon catchy tunes. Others, whether Catholic themselves or not, view priests as troubled souls who may soon debark from the ministry to marry, or simply as the impresarios of weekly bingo games...
...Egypt it will be Sadat's principal press adviser, Ashraf Ghorbal, 48, a tough-minded but genial expert on diplomacy who holds a doctorate in political science from Harvard (where he did his thesis on a favorite Kissinger subject, regional security arrangements) and who has served in Washington before. During the recent fighting, Egypt's propaganda was more realistic than it has ever been in 25 years of unrest and conflict. The generally factual reporting was due largely to Ghorbal's insistence...